World of Statecraft · Public Finance
The Civic Economy
A public ledger that anyone can audit, a stipend tied only to residency, budgets enacted in the open, and a marketplace under one rulebook. Built into the same engine as the elections.
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The Money Between a Person and Their Government
A film following one budget from enactment to the public ledger is in production.
The single binding rule is regulatory parity: public and private providers of the same good are regulated identically. A city may run its own water utility, license a cooperative, or leave the field to private firms. Whatever it chooses, the rules for water are the rules for water.
The engine carries that principle into software. It does not choose a model. It records who owns what, applies the same rulebook to each, and publishes the accounts.
A Double-Entry Public Ledger
Every movement of public money is a balanced entry on a ledger whose entries are chained together, so that an altered entry breaks the chain and shows. One service is the only writer. Anyone can read the books.
Budgets Enacted in the Open
A budget is passed like any other law, through committee and floor votes on the public record. Spending follows appropriations, and appropriations follow acts. Revenue, borrowing, and the treasury are visible pages.
A Stipend Tied Only to Residency
Where a jurisdiction funds a resident stipend, eligibility is an active residency and nothing else. The totals are public and each person's receipt is private. Switching the stipend off changes nobody's rights.
A Wallet Is Private, Like a Ballot
Public accounts are public. Personal wallets are readable only by their owner. No dashboard, including the Atlas, ever shows an individual balance.
A Marketplace and a Labor Board
Residents and organizations can list goods and services, post work, and apply for it. Hires feed directly into the worker representation rules, so a growing employer gains worker seats on schedule.
Mutual Aid
A resident can ask for help, and neighbors can give it, inside the same system.
The Economy, Open to Read
The economy pages are public reading: the market, the treasury, the units of account, the stipend, agreements, and joint ledgers that two or more parties control together.
In the demo, the economy runs on its own internal units. No real money is involved anywhere.
Work and trade in the live demo. Value is conserved on an append-only public ledger.
Worker Seats That Scale
As a workforce grows, workers gain seats on the board. The first worker seat arrives at 100 employees, and representation rises to parity with owners at 2,000. Worker seats are filled by election. Read about scaling co-determination.
Any Entity Can Register
Private firms, worker-owned and member-owned bodies, nonprofits, informal groups, and public Common Good Corporations all sit in one registry under the same rules.
Public Work Stays Public
The intellectual property of a Common Good Corporation is public domain by constitutional rule. What the public pays to create, the public keeps.
Ownership Can Convert
An enterprise can move between private, member, and public ownership through defined processes, and shares can be issued and traded between holders.
Taxes and fees exist in the engine. None of them can ever be a condition of voting, standing for office, petitioning, or serving on a jury. The constitution forbids charging for a civic right, and the engine pins that rule with an automated test. The economy is a service to the polity. It is never a gate in front of it.
The financial engine is built and its accounts balance under test. It has been exercised in small demonstration worlds, not at the scale of a real city, and its interfaces are younger than the election and legislature screens. Treat everything here as a working model to evaluate, not as a system to move real money through.
The Constitutional Engine
One gate for every civic act, a tamper-evident public record, and rules no administrator can bend.
Polymorphic Voting
An election that is always open: approvals, public endorsements, then a proportional ranked count.
Regulatory Parity
One rulebook for public and private providers of the same good.
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